Medsi Raises USD $10M in Debt-Financing Round to Onboard First 30,000 Mexican Customers Currently on the Waitlist for its “Health Assurance” Super App
Fast-expanding healthcare marketplace, Medsi, aims to solve big challenge of Latin American gap in access to affordable care via first-of-its-kind offering focused on the Mexico market first
With only a tiny fraction of Mexicans having health insurance or access to the necessary credit or savings, a medical emergency can be a catastrophic event as evidenced by the recent COVID-19 pandemic that hit Mexico harder than the rest of North America. It’s why Medsi chose Mexico as its “ground zero.”
Today, Medsi – a “fintech meets healthtech” marketplace that makes healthcare services, information, and pricing more ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Affordable Care CAPEM Mexico Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Jose Pepe Cabrera Manuel Villalvazo Medsi Medsi Credit App Medsi’s 24/7 Medical Concierge™ Services Mexico H Source Type: blogs
Dramatically Improving Population Health Through Remote Patient Monitoring Data
The following is a guest article by Anish Sebastian, CEO and Co-Founder of Babyscripts.
As winter storms sweep the country and complicate transportation, healthcare access becomes a front-and-center issue. Rural hospitals across the U.S. are shuttering their labor, delivery, and maternity wards, in many cases closing altogether. Pregnant women in remote rural areas are even more at risk this winter than previous years.
Thirty-six percent of U.S. counties now fit the designation of “maternity care desert,” meaning they have no obstetric hospitals or birth centers and no obstetric providers. For hospitals that have manag...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Anish Sebastian Babyscripts Blood Pressure Data Collection Hypertension Maternal Care Maternal Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Women should be allowed to exercise autonomy with regard to their bodies and their medical care
When I walked into the ultrasound room, I immediately noticed the patient’s red-rimmed eyes and cloud of mussed-up brown hair. My eyes tracked the defeated curve of her back and its stark contrast to the sterile environment of the obstetrics and gynecology exam room, with its muted grey and blue tones. A forty-year-old woman, she
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Women should be allowed to exercise autonomy with regard to their bodies and their medical care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Caroline Berberian Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - mostly COVID related
The last collection of things you may want to know about. Firstly, COVID related:Asystematic review and meta-analysis of neonatal outcomes of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy, published in Pediatric Research.Another,of the effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccine in pregnant women, published in BJOG.Then, apopulation based matched cohort study of major congenital anomalies following COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection - two separate groups, using health records from Scotland, published in Nature Communications.Anda sequential prospective meta-analysis of clinical risk factors of adverse outcomes a...
Source: Browsing - January 26, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Industry ’s First Male Fertility Platform Posterity Health Raises $7.5M in an Oversubscribed Funding Round Led by Distributed Ventures
Posterity Health’s funding to accelerate Digital Platform and expedite national expansion
Posterity Health, the only digital male fertility center of excellence that offers personalized advice, educational resources, and effective male fertility treatments, today announced an oversubscribed funding round of $7.5M led by early-stage venture capital fund Distributed Ventures. The funding reinforces the importance of evaluating the male partner when a couple is having trouble conceiving. The new capital will accelerate the company’s Digital Health Platform and provide access to male fertility testing and treatment on a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Accessibility Digital Health Platform Distributed Ventures Dr. James Smith Dr. Peter Schlegel Dr. Stan Honig FCA Venture Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment James J Col Source Type: blogs
Senior Gynaecologist fined for doing Anomaly Scan as it missed the Anomaly, Important Judgment
According to https://advrohiterande.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-senior-gynaecologist-fined-for-doing.html it appears to be a case of medical malpractice where Dr. Usha Mukhi, a gynaecologist, is being held liable for not detecting a congenital abdominal wall defect during an ultrasound examination of a patient ' s pregnancy. The patient, Seema Deswal, argues that the Dr. Mukhi should have referred her to a qualified radiologist and that the anomaly could have been detected earlier and the baby could have been aborted within 20 weeks of pregnancy. The case was initially dismissed by the District Forum, but was later allowed...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - January 15, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
How a positive staff helped an uncertain hospital stay [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Hospitals and health systems should bolster the skills of care teams through education to improve patient outcomes by minimizing variations in obstetric care and being equipped to prevent, identify, and address any possible maternal emergency. Our obstetrics team provided invaluable care through communication, physical
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How a positive staff helped an uncertain hospital stay [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Hospital-Based Medicine OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
A physician ’ s passion for obstetrics-gynecology [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “As trainees, we have unpredictable schedules. Sometimes we work days; others, we work long nights. As the weekends come by, my best friend inevitably asks me: “Who’s showing up this week at work, Batman or Bruce Wayne? This week Batman is showing up to
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A physician’s passion for obstetrics-gynecology [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Department of artifact : Normal “ wall motion defect ” in echocardiography
(This post is about some basics in echocardiography meant for fellows, and echocardiographers. Others can skip please )
This is a 27-year-old woman who was referred for routine* cardiac evaluation. What do you see?
What is the diagnosis?
This echo clip is from a woman who is 8 months pregnant. What you are seeing is perfectly physiologically and normal. On lying down there is a mechanical push of the diaphragm altering the LV shape and contraction. In the short axis, the left ventricle is contracting well, but the shape is not spherical in systole implying some desynchrony. Further, the IVS arena is contract...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - December 14, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Cardiology -Hemodynamics Echocardiography -Normal measurement Echocardiography-hemodynamics Teaching points cardiology research topic non ischemic wall motion defect in echocardiography wall motion defect in ers wall motion defect in lbbb Source Type: blogs
A Medical Student Perspective on Loss and Self-Awareness
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and eventually one of them looks at the other and goes, ‘What is water?”– David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College Commencement 2005, “This is Water.”
The journey from medical school to residency goes fast: there scarcely seems time enough to do it all. Although we practice again and again so we can better discern what troubles our patients, we do not do the same for ourselves. In fact, unti...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 6, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Laura Siegel Tags: Mental Health Self Care wellness Source Type: blogs
Streptococcus A
There have been several deaths in the UK from invasive infections caused by this bacterium. Here is some information about it, how to spot signs, and what action to take, from UK based sites.UK Health Security Agency update on scarlet fever and invasive group A streptococcusUK Health Security Agency blog: group A strepUK government guidance and data on group A streptococcal infections (last updated April 2022)Public Health ScotlandNHS 111 Wales (English) GIG 111 Cymru (Cymraeg)On both pages (ar y ddwy dudalen) the Recite link activates text to speech -there is a user guide on the Recite Me site)The N...
Source: Browsing - December 5, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: streptococcus A; scarlet fever Source Type: blogs
15 Things to Know Before Your Next Obstetrical Call
There’s something about the patient in labor that makes my palms sweat. I’m not alone. Most of us EMS folks get a little anxious at the idea of delivering a baby. Obstetrical calls can go very right and they can go very wrong. The stakes are high.
Here are a few things to consider before you run your next obstetrical call.
At full term, pregnant females have a heart rate 10-15 beats per minute faster than when they were prepartum. (Psst…Before they were pregnant.) They also have 25%-30% higher stroke volume and 30%-50% higher cardiac output.
Pregnant females will tolerate significant blood loss before they ...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 15, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
What Time Should You Check Your Blood Pressure?
ConclusionBest Time To Check Blood Pressure
Many experts recommend that you check your blood pressure at least twice a day. This could be once in the morning and again at night.
Doctors normally suggest checking your blood pressure at least twice a year. But there are other times when it may be worth checking.
If you have anxiety or experience high blood pressure episodes lasting more than two hours.
If you have shortness of breath, chest pain, rapid heart rate, sweating, lightheadedness, nausea or vomiting, consult your doctor immediately.
Choosing A Time That Works For You
You can check your blood pre...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 11, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Kutryk Tags: Guides Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
The State of Abortion Rights in the US
Martha F. Davis (Northeastern University), The State of Abortion Rights in the US, Int ' l J. Gynecology&. Obstetrics 324 (2022): In Dobbs v. Jackson Women ' s Health Organization (2022), the US Supreme Court reversed longstanding court precedents that protected abortion as... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 10, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Falling in love with the heart
An excerpt from Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between. In my third year at LSU Medical School, we dove headfirst into full-time patient care, taking required nine-week rotations on internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and general surgery. In the fourth year there were additional mandated
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Falling in love with the heart originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 26, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: David Alfery, MD Tags: Physician Cardiology Source Type: blogs
